# Jig #84: Open

> Does every almost-disjoint countably infinite family with no singleton intersections have Property B?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/84
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 602 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/602)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:32:54.632Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:32:54.636Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T04:32:54.636Z
- Statements: 1
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (1)

### 1. Given a family of countably infinite sets whose distinct members intersect finitely but never in exactly one…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/84?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:32:54.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**Given a family of countably infinite sets whose distinct members intersect finitely but never in exactly one point, is there a two-coloring under which no member is monochromatic?**

The coloring is defined on the whole ambient type rather than only the union; restriction and arbitrary extension make these formulations equivalent.

**Scope.**

Arbitrary ground and index types, countably infinite family members, finite pairwise intersections excluding cardinality one.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Set.Card

namespace Statements.Erdos602AlmostDisjointPropertyB

def IsMonochromatic {α : Type*} (f : α → Fin 2) (A : Set α) : Prop :=
  ∀ x ∈ A, ∀ y ∈ A, f x = f y

def HasPropertyB {α : Type*} (I : Type*) (A : I → Set α) : Prop :=
  ∃ f : α → Fin 2, ∀ i, ¬IsMonochromatic f (A i)

/-- Erdős Problem 602: an almost-disjoint family of countably infinite sets
with no singleton pairwise intersection has Property B. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ {α : Type*} {I : Type*} (A : I → Set α),
    (∀ i, (A i).Countable ∧ (A i).Infinite) →
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j → (A i ∩ A j).Finite) →
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j → Set.ncard (A i ∩ A j) ≠ 1) →
    HasPropertyB I A

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos602AlmostDisjointPropertyB
```

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